Bangkok, Jan 4 (IANS) About 7,000 people were moved to evacuation centres as Storm Pabuk struck the Thai province of Nakhon Si Thammarat on Friday, officials said. Authorities were trying to evacuate 80,000 people in…
Washington, Jan 4 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has called up the family of Indian-origin police officer Ronil Singh who was shot to death allegedly by an illegal immigrant in the US state of California…
Vijayawada, Jan 4 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday entrusted to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) the case relating to the knife attack on YSR Congress Party President Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy at Visakhapatnam…
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) At least seven people were killed and eight injured after an explosion in a factory here on Thursday night brought down the building, police said on Friday. The factory, a…
New Delhi/Meerut, Jan 4 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday said it has arrested an arms supplier in connection with its ongoing probe into the new Islamic State (IS) module ‘Harkat-ul-Harb-e-Islam’. A senior…
Bangkok, Jan 4 (IANS) Around 7,000 persons have been evacuated from Thai province of Nakhon Si Thammarat where Storm Pabuk is due to arrive on Friday, authorities said. Efforts are being made to evacuate 80,000…
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) At least six people died, including a minor and several others injured after an explosion in a factory in Delhi on Thursday night, police said. Deputy Commissioner of Police (West)…
Shillong, Jan 3 (IANS) Even as the fate of 15 miners trapped in a coal mine for over three weeks now remains uncertain, leader of Opposition in Meghalaya Assembly Mukul Sangma on Thursday lambasted the…
Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) The West Bengal Fire and Emergency Services Minister Sujit Bose on Thursday said his department has “identified certain shortcomings” in Kolkata Metro’s safety armour, including non-functional alarm and fire detection system,…
Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) Three members of a family, including a married couple and one of their twin daughters, were electrocuted after accidentally touching a high-voltage cable in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on…
Bengaluru, Jan 3 (IANS) About 30 teams of the Income Tax department conducted simultaneous searches in the premises of four Kannada film actors and three producers across the city for alleged tax evasion, said an…
Kabul, Jan 3 (IANS) A court here has convicted three men for the murder of a BBC journalist who was shot dead in Afghanistan’s Khost province in April last year, officials said on Thursday. One…
Riyadh, Jan 3 (IANS) Saudi prosecutors sought the death penalty for five of the 11 suspects accused of murdering journalist Jamal Khashoggi as their trial began here on Thursday, the state media reported. The trial…
New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday said that “prompt, immediate and effective steps” are required to augment the operations for the rescue of 15 miners trapped in flood water-hit mines in…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 3 (IANS) A dawn-to-dusk Kerala shutdown called to denounce the visit of two women to the Sabarimala temple saw major violence on Thursday, a rarity compared to the regular strikes the state witnesses…
Chennai, Jan 3 (IANS) Income Tax officials raided the offices of some well-known hotel chains over alleged tax evasion. “The raids at many locations in Chennai began at 8 a.m. and continued till late evening,”…
Chandigarh, Jan 3 (IANS) The Haryana Police issued over 28.09 lakh traffic violation tickets (challans) against those violating traffic rules in 11 months last year and recovered a penalty of over Rs 62.17 crore from…
Ranchi, Jan 3 (IANS) Eight persons died in two separate incidents in Jharkhand on Thursday, police said. Five people travelling in a jeep died when a truck hit the vehicle in Deoghar district on Thursday,…
Vijayawada, Jan 3 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Police on Thursday arrested Nowhera Shaikh, the Managing Director of the Hyderabad-based Heera Gold group, in a ponzi scheme case. The Crime Investigation Department (CID) took the entrepreneur-politician into…
Lucknow, Jan 3 (IANS) The Income-Tax department raided 28 business establishments in the state capital and Kanpur on Thursday, officials said. The IT sleuths raided the shops of a famous sweet chain in the state…